Destiny Cat’s Cradle doesn’t only cast doubt on the usefulness or wisdom of searching for truths, but also the ability of a person to control their own destiny is questioned. Do we create our own meaning or are we just following a path already laid out for us? It seems Vonnegut thinks life is meaningless and that there isn’t a God that sets a path for us to follow. Destiny is not controlled by someone or something more powerful than us but by what the generations before us has provided.
“To a striking extent, your overall life chances can be predicted not just from your parents’ status but also from your great-great-great-grandparents’.” (Gonchar, New York Times). This quote helps support the fact that destiny is based on what’s in the past and things aren’t paved out for you already. In the novel Cat’s Cradle Felix Hoenikker passed on ice-nine which set them up with a …show more content…
It seems like the whole novel has pointed him in the right direction and that his destiny was planned from the start. But in chapter 121 Mona kills herself with ice-nine for what seems like no reason. It seems like she knows that because the world is frozen she can’t fulfill her destiny so there is no point in going on. Or her destiny has already been fulfilled and there’s no reason to continue. In Chapter 115 when the plane crashed causing ice-nine to fall into the ocean. Was the pilot’s whole purpose in the universe to crash and through a chain reaction cause the end of humanity? Such a crazy event seems like it would need to be planned out by a larger force, but it also could have been just an unlucky chain of events. It seems the novel neither supports nor opposes destiny. There’s no way it was everyone’s destiny was to die from ice-nine so destiny must not be true. Jonah had to have been in the right place at the right time to become president of San Lorenzo and later survive
“To a striking extent, your overall life chances can be predicted not just from your parents’ status but also from your great-great-great-grandparents’.” (Gonchar, New York Times). This quote helps support the fact that destiny is based on what’s in the past and things aren’t paved out for you already. In the novel Cat’s Cradle Felix Hoenikker passed on ice-nine which set them up with a …show more content…
It seems like the whole novel has pointed him in the right direction and that his destiny was planned from the start. But in chapter 121 Mona kills herself with ice-nine for what seems like no reason. It seems like she knows that because the world is frozen she can’t fulfill her destiny so there is no point in going on. Or her destiny has already been fulfilled and there’s no reason to continue. In Chapter 115 when the plane crashed causing ice-nine to fall into the ocean. Was the pilot’s whole purpose in the universe to crash and through a chain reaction cause the end of humanity? Such a crazy event seems like it would need to be planned out by a larger force, but it also could have been just an unlucky chain of events. It seems the novel neither supports nor opposes destiny. There’s no way it was everyone’s destiny was to die from ice-nine so destiny must not be true. Jonah had to have been in the right place at the right time to become president of San Lorenzo and later survive